* Re: [gentoo-user] Qustions re Dell M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drives under Gentoo
@ 2021-06-02 20:52 99% ` antlists
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From: antlists @ 2021-06-02 20:52 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On 28/05/2021 17:17, Walter Dnes wrote:
>> Anything with spinning disk "is obsolete" they are trying to give it
>> way because nobody is buying them (you can buy them for few dollars),
>> don't expect it to last long.
>
> I've never had a hard drive fail on me. That includes a 2008 core2
> duo that I shut down last autumn. Web surfing was getting painfully
> slow, and really large spreadsheets were dying in 3 gigabytes of ram,
> but otherwise it still worked. 256 G SSD is not enough for me now.
> That takes us into 512 G SSD territory, which will be "adequate" for
> now, but who knows about my future needs.
>
I've recovered (or tried to) drives for other people, but again I've
been lucky in that I've never lost one of my own drives.
And as for nVME, some magazine did a "test to destruction" of
solid-state drives. They lasted almost for ever - I think the
computer(s) were configured to hammer the drives 24/7 and they lasted
over 18 months - that's probably a decade and more in normal usage.
The one thing to watch out for, is that if you DO encounter problems, DO
NOT shut the machine down. If a drive suffers failure, stage 1 seems to
be to go read-only. YOU MUST back it up immediately, because stage 2 is
to commit suicide on reboot. But you're highly unlikely to meet that
scenario in normal use.
I'm planning to buy one of those shingled horrors - a Seagate BaraCuda
12TB - for backups. Use btrfs or LVM, and rsync in-place copy. A good
idea in any case, but probably an even better idea if your main storage
is SSD.
Cheers,
Wol
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